SUMMERTIME: Around the House

Ellie loves to color with markers.  She's quite good and even holds the marker with proper technique.  A future artist?  Well, like usual, it got all over her hands, and naturally made it to the face as she was getting tired and rubbed her eyes and face.  "NOOOoooooo, oh well."

July 4th we went to the Party in the Park.  We got a free snow cone and Ellie thought it was pretty good.  Just really cold!  She doesn't get treats like this very often so it was funny to see how she liked it.

My living room was pretty colorful and beachy this summer.  I had seashells from my trip to Mexico back in the day strung in the windows and star fish adorning my pinecone wreath.  I had a lot of other seashells around.  For some reason this is the only picture I took, so don't mind the laundry on the couch :)

So I had a container garden out front and moved my plants around to find the best sun exposure for each.  I had placed a large pot over a crack in the sidewalk, and when I moved it the next day, YUCK!  At least a thousand ant eggs!  The worker ants freaked out and busily moved all the eggs back down the crack.  It took them a couple hours.  Bet they were tired after all that hurried work, poor guys! J/k.  It gave me the willies.

Ellie thinks it's fun to do yoga/pilates with me.  She loves the big rubber bands!

Check out my fun t-shirt projects!  Ever have so many t-shirts its insane?  Well, being married to a runner will do that to you.  Race after race it builds up, and Michael refuses to get rid of any.  So I raided the closet and took the shirts (of course not a UW crosscountry/track shirt, those are pretty precious) that were cheesy or a size too big that he would never wear and created a laundry sorter for my laundry basket and a coat closet organizer, both of which I love daily.  So handy.  I just eyeballed everything.  It was pretty liberating to not have a pattern and just sew without worrying about messing it up.  I even had the brilliant thought of adding a stain pouch, so I don't have to look at each piece anymore.  Best thing is that Michael totally gets it now.  We used to have a divided basket and he would just throw his clothes in, not getting the sorting idea.  I've learned labels make the biggest difference in whether or not things get sorted. :)

Gorgeous I know!  Just a bunch of sleeves sewn on.